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Our ambiguity

Magdi Allam - It 's true that Italy is not considered credible by a State of Israel and the Lebanese government? It 's true that we have signed a secret pact with Syria to save the skin of our 3 000 soldiers deployed in Lebanon by Hezbollah or Al Qaeda attack? The revelation about a possible secret deal between D'Alema and Assad that would commit our country to end the international isolation of Syria in exchange for a guarantee that Hezbollah will not make the attacks, was denied by our ambassador in Tel AvivDeBernardin that assured that the on-line news reported the Israeli newspaper Haaretz is not due to "Israeli sources authorized."

But certainly the issue of security of our contingent framed within UNIFIL has been the focus of the talks that D'Alema had with Assad in Damascus last June 5. Our Foreign Minister has pointed out in the 'presence of groups linked to Al Qaeda, the "greatest danger" to our soldiers. He suggested that cooperation was crucial in the action of Hezbollah and diHamasè to avoid danger. Just as it is equally certain that Syria has strongly raised the issue of the establishment of international tribunal on the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, which accused the Syrian leadership sees. D'Alema in Damascus has worked hard to reassure the Syrians that the Court is "not directed against a State" and those that are "not start right away.

The Italian commitment to contain the hostility toward Syria, re-emerged on the day of the funeral in Beirut of the anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido, killed in a car-bomb attack on June 13, supporting our opposition to make 'the list of good and bad. " A counter position than the United States and the Lebanese government who have shifted the authorship of the attack on Syria. The location of 'Italy was in contrast to that of the Lebanese government also on the crucial issue of rearmament of' Hezbollah. While a June 14 memorandum of the General Staff of the Army of Lebanon, announced the UN envoy for the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen, has accused Syria of having illegally supplied weapons to 'Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the same day, General Claudio Graziano, the UNIFIL commander, countered that "in my area of \u200b\u200boperation there is no open hostile activity and we see no reset."

The Italian attitude is in contrast with that of Prime Minister Siniora has accused Syrian intelligence of the terrorists operate binladiani of Fath al-Islam, Saad Al Saad Hariri has called on Arab countries to "boycott the terrorist regime of Syria ', and Walid Jumblatt who has called the Assad regime, "a band of murderers," warning that "Americans and Europeans are making a tragic mistake flirting with Assad." What probably escapes on Israel and the Lebanese government, is that the truth there is nothing new in the attitude of Italy toward Syria and the strategy of preventing terrorism. D'Alema is doing nothing but perpetuating a practice since the seventies when it exploded the phenomenon of Palestinian terrorism on an international scale. I remember how I found myself in 1983 after the then Foreign Minister Andreotti on a visit to Damascus is very similar to the last one in the spirit of D'Alema and objectives.

It was not a coincidence that the Italian contingent posted to protect Palestinian civilians in Beirut after the evacuation of fedaiyin Arafat, was the only one not affected by the attacks of Hezbollah which, just then, he opened the phenomenon of Islamic suicide bombers. The Italian soldiers were spared under a secret agreement with the Syrian intelligence services, which became guarantors of the conduct of Hezbollah and their main sponsor, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. Just as there is nothing new in the commitment of Italy to clear the dictatorial Arab regimes. The case of the most successful has been to Libya's Gaddafi, after years of international isolation for his responsibility in the massacres of the 1988 Lockerbie plane and Uta exploded in the skies over Niger in 1989, was able to rescue a political virginity thanks to 'commitment of the Italian governments of left and right.

today is probably more pronounced connotations of Italy alongside Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. There can not leave puzzled by the fact that the Foreign Ministry has neither condemned the bloody military coup by Hamas in Gaza, nor given his support to the new government formed by Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen. So if it is true that Italy lost the hair but not in the habit often been flirting with sponsors of terrorism, but we keep in mind that the enemy today is not only beyond the borders but we even into our house.

by Corriere della Sera